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next chapter…
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RETREATS IN THE WILD
THE BIG REVEAL
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What if your
next chapter…
Was waiting for you?
RETREATS IN THE WILD
THE BIG REVEAL
Scroll to explore
Thirteen Journeys.
One Year. Press Play.
Thirteen Journeys.
One Year.
Press Play.
Untamed Men
The man beneath the armour
Five nights in treetop suites above the floodplain: sweat lodge, firewalk, Hojo sword training at dusk, breathwork every day, and a fire circle every night where the masks come off.
For the man who has built the business, the career, the family, and hasn't put the armour down in years. You don't need to be in spiritual work or sure of anything; you need to be willing to set down what you've been carrying for five days.
Held by Brett Shuttleworth, Joe van Niekerk & Cobus Visser and Hosted by Tinolla Rodgers
Awakening the Temple Within,Egypt
A pilgrimage back to yourself
Twelve days opening on the Autumn Equinox at Dahshur, then three nights sailing the Nile by private dahabiya, a dawn balloon over the Valley of the Kings, three nights of Bedouin hospitality in the Western Desert, and a pre-dawn closing inside the King's Chamber.
For the traveller who wants a journey that works on them, not just a route. Brett's Golden Inner Temple teachings run alongside Tinolla's journey through the seven energy centres, so each place on the map mirrors a place in you.
Wild Woman
Five days. Four thresholds. One wild becoming.
An initiatory journey built on the metamorphosis of the African Monarch butterfly, moving through four thresholds, the Unraveling, the Knowing, the Alchemy, the Rapture, with somatic practice, ritual, creativity and firelight sisterhood.
This is for the woman who did everything right and no longer recognises the life it built. If menopause, a divorce, an empty nest or just an ordinary Tuesday has raised a question you can't put down, this circle is built to hold it.
The Incredible India Pilgrimage
Awaken to your true nature
Ten days moving from the Taj Mahal to Rishikesh, the birthplace of yoga, sunrise meditation in the Himalayas, fire ceremony on the Ganges, blessings from local sages, and white water down the river.
This is for you if you want understanding to become embodiment. Brett's 7 Sacred Miracles are worked through in the place they came from, and you leave with a vision board, a manifestation diary and a daily practice that survives the flight home.
Kintsugi retreat
Where your scars become gold
Seven days in the wild heart of Namibia, moving through the eight movements of Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of mending what is broken with gold. Mindfulness and deep rest, forest bathing and time in the bush, and the tender ritual at its heart: you break a ceramic vessel, then mend it, shard by shard, with lacquer and pure gold.
Machu Picchu - A Pilgrimage to Purpose
The trail is not the point. The point is who you become on it.
Ten days on the ancient Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, through the high Andes and the Sacred Valley, over Dead Woman's Pass, and on foot through the Sun Gate for sunrise over the Lost City.
This is for the part of you that is ready for something deeper than another holiday, more honest than another conference, more lasting than another reset. You do not need to be an experienced hiker; you only need to be willing to walk.
Wild Eye Retreat
Photography and nature, in synthesis
Eight unhurried days of Herbert Brauer's Photo-Life-Synthesis, where the whole photographic act is brought into alignment with nature's principles - dawn and late-afternoon game drives, a cruise on the Kwando, nature practices and visual acuteness exercises, daily lectures and one-to-one mentoring, and long siestas between. Only twelve participants.
Ignite Your Soul Bali
Love is the ultimate success
Eleven days across four Balinese landscapes, rice terraces under a sacred volcano, cleansing pools beneath forest waterfalls, coral reefs and ocean sunsets at Pemuteran, then the easy coastal warmth of Canggu.
Come here if nothing is wrong and something is still missing. It's for the successful, well-loved person who senses that presence and love as a lived experience, not a concept, is available, and hasn't yet found the door.
Business Mastery: The Art of Scaling
Stop working harder at the wrong things
Five intensive days building a complete twelve-month execution blueprint across strategy, revenue, people, systems, finance and AI, with quarterly priorities, owners, KPIs and deadlines before you leave.
This is for founders and leadership teams whose growth has outrun their systems. You won't leave with another notebook of ideas; you leave with a plan, a 90-day sprint, twelve months of tracking and a peer room that keeps you honest.
Camino Primitivo - A Pilgrimage to Trust
The destination is Santiago. The real journey is back to yourself.
An eight-day walking pilgrimage along the Camino Primitivo, the oldest route to Santiago de Compostela, for leaders, entrepreneurs and exceptional individuals ready to step away from the noise and lay down the weight they've been carrying alone.
You do not need to be an experienced hiker, or have your faith or your future worked out. You only need to be willing to walk, to reflect, and to let the path do its quiet work.
The Inner Balance Retreat
Coming home to yourself in the wild
Five unhurried days of mindfulness-based stress reduction, Deep Rest, forest bathing and self-compassion, woven between game drives, a boat cruise on the Kwando and long siestas in the heat of the day.
Choose this one if you are running on empty, the overwhelm, the fatigue, the sense of never quite catching up. It is not an escape from your life; it is a set of clinically grounded tools you can actually keep using once you are back in it.
Durban Awakening Retreat
A journey to the shoreline of your soul
Three days on the beachfront at Salt Rock, discovering that the fulfilment you have been seeking is already within you: opening ceremony and Sacred Miracles teaching with Brett, breathwork and somatic movement with Joe, a sunrise beach gathering, and a letting-go fire ceremony under the stars.
For those ready for something deeper than a typical wellness weekend, guided by two men who built extraordinary lives by every external measure, then walked away from all of it to find what success alone couldn't answer.
The Art of Union
A couples’ immersion in intimacy, eros & devotion
A five-day journey for couples ready to deepen their connection and discover their relationship as a path of growth and awakening.
Through conscious communication, embodied intimacy, trust and the healing of relational wounds, this immersive experience invites you to awaken a deeper devotion to your sacred other, rediscover the beauty and aliveness within your connection, and reignite your love to each other, and to the unfolding of what your union is here to bring into the world.
Wild Woman
Five days. Four thresholds. One wild becoming.
An initiatory journey built on the metamorphosis of the African Monarch butterfly, moving through four thresholds, the Unraveling, the Knowing, the Alchemy, the Rapture, with somatic practice, ritual, creativity and firelight sisterhood.
This is for the woman who did everything right and no longer recognises the life it built. If menopause, a divorce, an empty nest or just an ordinary Tuesday has raised a question you can't put down, this circle is built to hold it.
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Meet the Circle
Scroll on to meet the facilitators holding every journey.
The hands that hold the work
Founder, Retreats in the Wild
Tinolla Rodgers
Owner and Managing Director of African Monarch Journeys and Retreats in the Wild, and a hotelier of more than thirty years who now leads a team of 97 and two lodges inside Bwabwata National Park. Having walked her own seasons of loss and rebuilding, she holds the ceremonial thread and the safety of every journey.
The Consciousness Pioneer
Brett Shuttleworth
From international rugby to modelling and Hollywood, Brett became one of the world's leading consciousness trainers and the creator of HoJo Consciousness Training. He has guided over 200,000 people and more than fifty retreats, and holds the inner architecture, the 7 Sacred Miracles, the I AM principles, the Hojo sword form.
The Warrior Healer
Joe van Niekerk
A fifty-cap Springbok and Toulon Hall of Famer who walked away from the field into one of the most honest transformation journeys in modern sport. Across fifty-plus ceremonies and deep breathwork training he has built a quiet authority you feel before he speaks, he holds the breath, the body and the somatic ground.
The Viking · Strategy & Firewalk
Cobus Visser
Born with haemophilia, paralysed in 2013, and the man who climbed Kilimanjaro on crutches, now Africa's only Master Firewalking Instructor and Entrepreneur of the Year 2025. He brings growth strategy and practical AI to the boardroom days, and the drum and the coals to the fire circle.
Your Retreat Angel
Rupali Mahendra
A former New York attorney turned consciousness coach, now based in Rishikesh, who has co-created over fifty retreats alongside Brett across India, Bali, Croatia, Portugal and South Africa. She holds every stage of your preparation, from first enquiry to the moment you arrive.
Priestess
Rôuxvé
Once a management consultant who could solve anything on a spreadsheet and still felt something starving underneath. After years devoted to shamanism and tantra, her work now weaves energy healing, feminine embodiment, nervous system wisdom and ritual, and holds the Wild Woman circle.
Mindfulness & Deep Rest Teacher
Hella Göbel
Namibian-born, and drawn back to Nambwa for a healing retreat after a repeated cancer diagnosis in her fifties, a turning point that became her life's work. She teaches MBSR as taught by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Deep Rest, self-compassion and forest bathing, from both training and lived experience.
Creator of Photo-Life-Synthesis®
Herbert Brauer
Namibian-born, an award-winning wildlife filmmaker and stills photographer with close to three decades of work for international broadcasters, known for month-long assignments living self-contained in remote wilderness. He is also a full-time transformative coach and nature guide, and the creator of Photo-Life-Synthesis, a process that aligns the photographic act with nature's five elements and the medicine wheel.
Desert Explorer & Cultural Guide
Mahmoud Marai, PhD
One of Egypt's foremost desert explorers, who has spent a lifetime uncovering the hidden stories and sacred landscapes of his homeland. His knowledge runs past history into mythology and symbolism, revealing an Egypt very few travellers ever get to see.
Trail Guide, Peru
Fermín Álvarez Usandivares
Born in Ollantaytambo, in the heart of the Sacred Valley of the Incas, Fermín is the second of eight siblings and has spent fifteen years in Peru's tourism industry, with extensive experience in adventure and hiking. He worked first as a porter, then a cook, and is now a professional official tour guide, a job he considers his true passion.
Expansion Architect · Leadership & Nature Facilitator
Quirine Peeters
Belgian-born entrepreneur and business strategist with a background in business engineering and international business development, Quirine spent the past decade building, leading and growing from a place of authenticity rather than performance. She now works as an International Expansion Architect, weaving sharp business thinking with intuition and deep nature immersion to help leaders translate who they are into how they lead.
You’ve now met the journeys. You’ve met the people behind them. All that remains is to discover which one is calling you. We hope to welcome you somewhere in the wild in 2027.
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